Suburban Voters Decide School Board Races

By Bill Dries

Voters in Shelby County’s six suburban towns and cities elected their respective municipal schools boards Thursday, Nov. 7 with low voter turnouts that reflected that most of the school board positions on the ballots were one-candidate uncontested races.

The turnout based on the unofficial vote counts ranged from 1.4 percent in Collierville where all five school board races were uncontested to an 8 percent turnout in Germantown where the lone contested race featured a field of three, the largest field of candidates in any of the six contested races across the six towns and cities.